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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vikki krane”
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  • Reimagining the Gendering of Sport

    Edited by Vikki Krane, Tanya Prewitt-White ...
    Reimagining the Gendering of Sport highlights the increasing public attention women's sport is receiving whilst examining the challenges that female athletes continue to face. The book provides a critical assessment of areas where reform is needed and presents creative reimaginings of a more equitable sporting world.Leading experts outline ongoing issues in contemporary girls' and women's sport, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport

    Queer Inquiries

    Edited by Vikki Krane ...
    Diverse sex, gender, and sexual identities historically have been pushed to the margins in sport. While there is more visibility and inclusion for LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) people in sport today than in the past, there still exists bigotry and marginalization.In this book, Vikki Krane and a team of leading sport scholars critically assess what we know about sex, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology

    A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners

    Edited by David Tod, Ken Hodge, Vikki Krane ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Applied sport psychology knowledge has advanced rapidly in recent years. Traditionally, literature focused primarily on a narrow range of topics associated with performance enhancement, giving rise to a model of helping labelled psychological skills training. Although the psychological skills training model has considerable value, the literature has broadened to address a greater diversity of ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • Let Us Play

    Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes

    by Harrison Browne, Rachel Browne ...
    Series Book 13 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **“Get your head out of your phone and stop doomscrolling. Read Let Us Play instead.”—Jay Onrait, sports anchor“A crucial playbook that athletes and nonathletes alike can use to help make sports an inclusive place for all.”—Meghan Duggan, 3-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist, USA Women’s Hockey“Will shed light on the unique challenges trans athletes face.”—Chris Mosier, transgender athlete ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • No Slam Dunk

    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    by Cheryl Cooky, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Changing on the Fly

    Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

    by Courtney Szto ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book AwardHockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Taking The Field

    Women, Men, and Sports

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls’ and women’s dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-and yet, as Michael Messner shows us in this provocative book, no less ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Power Played

    A Critical Criminology of Sport

    Edited by Derek Silva, Liam Kennedy ...
    Series series Law and Society
    This innovative collection convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextricably linked to issues of violence, harm, deviance, and punishment.On the one hand, sport is a mainstay of community building, an expression of solidarity, and a means to mental and social health. On the other, there is the star player who commits sexual ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity

    Edited by Robert Pitter, David L. Andrews, Joshua I. Newman ...
    Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text surpasses the scope of sociological texts that focus solely on sports, covering a broad range of physical activities such as fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others. The authors emphasize the promotion of healthy individuals and a healthy body in the many movement ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Quest for Social Justice in Sport

    by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
    Although social justice initiatives in education and the workplace have decades-long histories, sport has been slow to follow. In the areas of sport policies, sport practices and sport scholarship, liberal/reform approaches dominate, while the structural roots of injustice - racism, colonialism, misogyny, disablism, homophobia and transphobia - remain largely unchanged.Use and misuse of sport ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture

    An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity

    by Thomas Keith ...
    Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture offers readers a multidisciplinary, intersectional overview of masculinity studies that includes both theoretical and applied lenses. Keith combines current research with historical perspectives to demonstrate the contexts in which masculine identities have come evolved. With an emphasis on popular culture -- particularly film, TV, video games, and ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology

    Sociological Approaches

    Edited by Jimmy Sanderson ...
    Series Book 15 - Research in the Sociology of Sport
    Social media and digital technologies have become significant forces in the sport industry. From athletes and fans interacting via social media and video games, sport organizations integrating these technologies into marketing and public relations functions, to coaches and athletic trainers using digital technology to monitor athletes’ biometric information, these technologies are pervasive in ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD